Anxiety As Object Suspected To Be A Bomb Uncovered In Onitsha High Court, Anambra State

An object suspected to be a rocket bomb was discovered at the
High Court Onitsha division,  Anambra State, on Thursday,
TheNigerialawyer, gathered.

According to the information from our source, the attention of
the Assistant Chief Registrar and other lawyers were drawn to it,
when a lawyer who was a former military officer discovered it.

The AIG was immediately alerted as well as the Nigerian Army
Engineers and the military intelligence, Onitsha.

Our source said from the investigation, there is a ploy to bomb
the High Court.

“The bomb was vibrating but because the lawyer has military
background he had to defuse it.

“However, Division Police Officer, Fegge, CSP, Garba Rabiu with
his team of police officers arrived the scene and has removed the
Rocket bomb”, the source said, as gathered by TheNigerialawyer.

Another source, who was at the scene of said from his
observation the Rocket was not recently planted.

“To me it does not appear to be recent. It could be a flood that
carried it there and it was at the car pack not directly inside the
court but at the entrance.

“My friend who is a military officer who was with me said, that
this type of bomb does not explode easily, there has to be pressure
or a leakage before it can explode.

“I don’t think it was that dangerous if not people wouldn’t have
been there,” he said.

However, the Management of the Court, has called on the Bomb
Disposal Unit of Nigerian Police to re-assess the court
premises.

Nairalaw recalls that during the #Endsars protest there
was an attempt to set  Onitsha High Court premises ablaze
before the intervention of the police.

An object suspected to be a rocket bomb was discovered at the
High Court Onitsha division,  Anambra State, on Thursday,
TheNigerialawyer, gathered.

According to the information from our source, the attention of
the Assistant Chief Registrar and other lawyers were drawn to it,
when a lawyer who was a former military officer discovered it.

The AIG was immediately alerted as well as the Nigerian Army
Engineers and the military intelligence, Onitsha.

Our source said from the investigation, there is a ploy to bomb
the High Court.

“The bomb was vibrating but because the lawyer has military
background he had to defuse it.

“However, Division Police Officer, Fegge, CSP, Garba Rabiu with
his team of police officers arrived the scene and has removed the
Rocket bomb”, the source said, as gathered by TheNigerialawyer.

Another source, who was at the scene of said from his
observation the Rocket was not recently planted.

“To me it does not appear to be recent. It could be a flood that
carried it there and it was at the car pack not directly inside the
court but at the entrance.

“My friend who is a military officer who was with me said, that
this type of bomb does not explode easily, there has to be pressure
or a leakage before it can explode.

“I don’t think it was that dangerous if not people wouldn’t have
been there,” he said.

However, the Management of the Court, has called on the Bomb
Disposal Unit of Nigerian Police to re-assess the court
premises.

Nairalaw recalls that during the #Endsars protest there
was an attempt to set  Onitsha High Court premises ablaze
before the intervention of the police.